Document Type : Research

Author

• Mokhtar Nouri

PhD of Political Science and Director of the Department of Intellectual Trends Research Institute of Middle East Strategic Studies

Abstract

The role and position of religion in human political and social life is an issue that must be analyzed for its importance. To address this issue, the present paper looks at one of the most important works in this field, the book The Christianity and Democracy by Jacques Maritain of the French neotomist philosopher. In this work, Maritain has defended democracy by referring to Christianity. Of course, this type of defense is not free of criticism, and Maritain’s work also tragically looks at contemporary democracies. It is clear that the relationship between “religion and democracy” is not limited to Jacques Maritan’s thought, and many thinkers in various intellectual paradigms have addressed this issue. It is also not just about Christianity, and it is one of the most significant topics in the Muslim world. The author has attempted to discuss Jacques Maritain’s theoretical model of the relationship of Christianity and democracy from a political, philosophical, and theological perspective.

Keywords

• Religion
• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Modernity
• Liberalism
• Reason
• Democracy

Main Subjects

• Philosophy